If you’re enjoying this week’s new “Judge Dredd” story in 2000AD (Prog 2439), here’s a treat for you – a page from next week’s issue, courtesy of Rebellion!
“It’s Dredd as a revenge thriller in the Peckinpah mode,” writer Rob Williams enthuses, “And it looks amazing.” He’s not wrong!
“Tunnels” is an eight part Dredd from Rob Williams and RM Guera, the team responsible for last year’s “Rend & Tear” storyline set in the snowy wilderness. This time out Judge Dredd heads to the jungle to track down a lead in the claustrophobic Tunnels… And if you thought Guera was good at drawing the wilds, just look at how he takes on a jungle, below, teased this week!
In case you haven’t picked up your copy of this week’s pulse-pounding issue, Prog 2439 of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic also features a stunning new “Future Shock” written by Ed Whiting and drawn by Adam Stone. Ed was the winner of 2000AD‘s Thought Bubble Writer Search a year or two ago, and continues to write stories for The Galaxy’s Greatest – but also, step forward Adam Stone, who won last year’s Artist Search and makes his 2000AD debut here!
The 2000AD Talent Search has been running for over a decade now, finding unpublished new talent and bringing them to the Prog – and returns to Thought Bubble later this year.
2000AD Prog 2439
UK and DIGITAL: On Sale from 2 July £3.80
NORTH AMERICA: 3 September $30.00 (Prog Pack)
DIAMOND: MAY251643
COVER: Cliff Robinson with Dylan Teague
In this issue:
JUDGE DREDD // TUNNELS
by Rob Williams (Writer) RM Guera (Artist) Giulia Brusco (Colourist) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)
Mega-City One, 2147 AD. Home to over 250 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America, with the irradiated Cursed Earth to the west, and the toxic Black Atlantic to the east. Tensions are on a knifeedge, crime is rampant, and only the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law!
NU EARTH WAR TALES // THE MAJOR
by Gordon Rennie (Writer) Jake Lynch (Artist) Dylan Teague (Colourist) Jim Campbell (Letterer)
Nu Earth, site of a galactic war between the Norts and the Southers, where the atmosphere has been rendered poisonous. So the Southers created the Genetic Infantrymen, immune to the pollutants — G.I.s like ROGUE TROOPER, the last of his kind. As he, together with biochip buddies Helm, Gunnar and Bagman, search for the traitor that sold them out, stories swirl around the characters involved in this conflict…
THARG’S 3RILLERS // FAR FROM EDEN
by Alan Kerr (Writer) Ian Richardson (Artist) Pippa Bowland (Colourist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)
Three episodes, one complete, self-contained story — a condensed hit of super-charged Thrill-power beamed to you directly from the Nerve Centre! The planet Eden, the far future. Earth is finally dying after centuries of pollution and stripping it of its resources, and mankind must find a new world to call its own. A potential home has been discovered in Eden, but first the native species must be removed before humanity can move in…
FUTURE SHOCKS // INFILTRATOR
by Ed Whiting (Writer) Adam Stone (Artist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)
Out in the vast reaches of the universe, there are an infinite number of stories waiting to be told. These cautionary tales pass from traveller to traveller in the spaceports and around campfires on distant planets, acquiring the status of legend, their shocking ends a salutory lesson in hubris. Anything is possible in these twisted trips into the galaxy’s dark side. Abandon your preconceptions, and expect the unexpected…
SCARLET TRACES // EMPIRE OF BLOOD
by Ian Edginton (Writer) D’Israeli (Artist) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)
England, the late nineteenth century. Earth has come under attack by Martian war machines, devastating huge swathes of the country with their heat rays and harvesting enormous numbers of people. Finally struck down by the planet’s viruses, the Martians’ assault collapses. Now, humanity is picking up the pieces and coming to terms with the aftermath, but there appears to be vestiges of the aliens left…
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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